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Watch as WAAY uses Omni for news coverage of the earthquake in Haiti.

Tracking our Progress: From Storm Tracking to Tornado Prediction - A retrospective look back over Baron's history of storm tracking. Click here for more...

Company News:
Baron Services Joins General Dynamics Team Awarded FAA NextGen Modernization Contract, 8-18-2010
Baron QuikLink Provides Aviation Weather for Pre-flight Weather Analysis, 7-26-2010
WTVD Launches Baron's SAF-T-Net, 6-2-2010
Baron Tornado Index Accurately Predicts Tornadoes During April 24th Outbreak, 5-27-2010
WABG-TV goes all Baron, 5-17-2010
WJHL-TV Reaches 2,000 SAF-T-Net Subscribers In First Week, 5-5-2010
Baron QuikLink Now Available, 3-29-2010
WAAY-TV Selects Baron Services as Sole Source Weather Provider, 3-17-2010
Bob Baron named AMS Fellow, 1-21-2010
Baron Services Introduces QuikLink: New data service offers global, low-bandwidth weather and sea-state data, 10-29-09
Baron Services Installs First NEXRAD Dual-Polarization Upgrade for NOAA's National Weather Service, 7-14-09
SAF-T-Net uses algorithms to detect a storm cell moving toward the subscriber's specified location, an automatic alert, 4-29-09
Baron Services and Cell Journalist have signed an exclusive arrangement to integrate the two robust technology platforms, 4-29-09
Volumetric radar imaging takes all available radar elevation scans and creates a 3D illustration of the storm, 4-29-09
Omni is now available in two configurations, Omni and Omni Plus, 4-29-09
Omni's new features increase the product's value and flexibility, 4-29-09
Baron Services Delivers Two VHDD-350C Doppler Weather Radars to Indonesia, 3-12-09
Baron Services Founder Recognized By American Meteorological Society With Distinguished Applied Meteorology Award, 1-15-09
Baron Services Completes Critical Design Review for NOAA's National Weather Service NEXRAD Dual-Polarization Upgrade, 1-14-09
Baron Installs Pulsar DSSR-250c Doppler Weather Radar For Saudi Arabia's Yanbu Airport, 1-13-09
Baron Services & Bay News 9 Unveil First-of-its-Kind Weather Radar, 12-15-08
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		In The News:
		Baron Services opens manufacturing facility for radar upgrade work The Huntsville Times, July 12, 2010 [more...]
		Weather technology company Baron Services has a new subscription-based global Weather Data Services called Baron QuikLink Ocean Navigator, July/August issue 2010 [more...]
		Bob Dreisewerd promoted to chief development officer The Huntsville Times, June 13, 2010 [more...]
		WTVD Adopts Baron SAF-T-NET WTVD-TV, the ABC O&O in Raleigh-Durham, N.C. has launched a new weather alert service from Baron Services. [more...]
		New Data Service, Baron QuikLink Baron Services announced the availability of Baron QuikLink, a subscription-based global weather data service. [more...]
		WABG Weather Goes All Baron Commonwealth Broadcasting Group's ABC affiliate, WABG Greenwood, Miss. (DMA 187), has switched to an all-Baron Services weather solution. [more...]
		WeatherBrains 221: Baron Services (Podcast) Our special guest for this episode is Bob Baron from Baron Services, Inc., Huntsville, AL. [more...]
		Belt tightening leads Alabama to one source for weather resources The economic downturn has caused stations around the country to reshape workflows and personnel needs, re-exam service and maintenance contracts and re-evaluate vendors in an effort to trim costs. [more...]
		WAAY Selects Baron Services As Weather Source Baron Services announced today that it has been selected by WAAY, the Calkins Media-owned ABC affiliate in Huntsville, Ala., to be the station's sole-source weather provider. [more...]
		Robert “Bob” O. Baron, Founder and CEO of Hunstville-based Baron Services, has been named Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the nation’s premier scientific organization for those involved in the atmospheric and related sciences. [more...]
		Baron Services Installs First NEXRAD Dual-Polarization Upgrade for National Weather Service Baron Services, in partnership with L-3 Enterprise IT Solutions (EITS), announced recently that the EITS/Baron Services team has installed the first of the U.S. National Weather Services' (NWS) 171 NEXRAD upgrades in Norman, Okla. [more...]
		WOFL's new Doppler radar will be biggest, station says The weather war among Central Florida television stations is about to intensify. Stations like to boast they have the best equipment, and WOFL-Channel 35 is making a bold new claim. [more...]
		Baron Installs NEXRAD Dual-Polarization Upgrade Huntsville, Ala.-based Baron Services, in partnership with L-3 Enterprise IT Solutions (EITS), has installed the first of the U.S. National Weather Services' (NWS) 171 NEXRAD upgrades in Norman, Okla. [more...]
		NOAA Upgrades Oklahoma Radar Facility The U.S. National Weather Service’s Baron Services NEXRAD weather radar installation in Norman, Okla. has just received the first of several planned upgrades. [more...]
		NEXRAD upgrade for better weather Baron Services, in partnership with L-3 Enterprise IT Solutions (EITS), has installed the first of the U.S. National Weather Services’ (NWS) 171 NEXRAD upgrades in Norman, Okla. [more...]
		Baron Services Installs First NEXRAD Upgrade For NWS In our never-ending search for the answer to the question "What's the weather?", Baron Services, in partnership with L-3 Enterprise IT Solutions (EITS), says the EITS/Baron Services team has installed the first of the National Weather Services' 171 NEXRAD upgrades in Norman, OK. [more...]
		NOAA Upgrades Oklahoma Radar Facility The U.S. National Weather Service’s Baron Services NEXRAD weather radar installation in Norman, Okla. has just received the first of several planned upgrades. [more...]
		Storm Tracking technology that helped us cope with a hyperactive hurricane season Bob Dylan was right; you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. What you really need is a meteorologist equipped with Baron Services' storm-tracking technology. [more...]
		Weather Man: Bob Baron’s WxWorx Delivers Weather to Your Cockpit You may not know Bob Baron’s name, but he’s changed the way you fly. [more...]
		Baron Bringing Weather To Your Cockpit, Most people aren’t able to parlay an aviation interest into a career that makes the whole industry safer. [more...]
		Success Comes from 'Stick-to-it-iveness', November 15, 1989, we had a major tornado come through Huntsville. It was pretty devastating for a number of reasons. [more...]
		Baron's Klyde to Tackle Weather for Bay News 9, 01-07-09 Bay News 9 is the first news organization to adopt Klyde, Baron's C-band klystron dual-polarization (KHDD) radar that operates at over one million watts [more...]
		Bay News 9's new radar to paint clearer picture around bay, 01-04-09 Chief meteorologist Mike Clay says the overall system is unique, "..hands down better than any TV station has." [more...]
		WOFL-TV pinpoints weather forecasts for viewers with Omni™, 12-05-08 With Omni, the station can "pinpoint weather forecasts in a graphically seamless manner," said Glenn Richards, WOFL-TV chief meteorologist. [more...]
		Omni™ Weather Platform Goes on HD Newscast, 12-02-08 "..we can now incorporate viewers' weather videos and pictures into our forecasts to present even more hyper-local weather information." [more...]